Girona visits Real Madrid for the top of the Spanish La Liga: the numbers that make you dream of failure

He Girona clings to previous victories real Madridas 1-2 of 2019 in Santiago Bernabeu or the 4-2 last April, to aspire to victory in Saturday’s match in Madrid and take charge of the team The Spanish championshipnow two points. The match will start at 2.30pm (Argentine time) and will be broadcast by DSports.

The Catalan team will be missing those sanctioned Michel Sanchez, Blind Daley AND Yangel Herrera, but will visit Madrid convinced that it is possible to win. Because he did it three times in the seven previous duels between the two clubs in the national competition.

He won the first and fourth direct duels, in 2017 at Montilivi and in 2019 at the Bernabéu, 2-1 in both cases and with the same script: goal by the Uruguayan Cristian Stuani match the opening goal and Real Madrid’s goals For your overturn the result and obtain two historic victories, with Pablo Machin AND Eusebio Sacristan respectively as technicians.

Stuani is the top scorer in the duels between the two teams Karim Benzema (5), just before Cristiano Ronaldo and the Argentine Taty Castellanos.

This last player, now in the ranks of laziohe was the main protagonist of the match last April, with a poker that entered the history books of Spanish football, given that Real Madrid had not received four goals from the same player in the same league match since December 1947.

That victory meant that Girona opened this season with a positive record against Real Madrid, something extraordinary in La Liga: three wins, a draw (1-1, last season in the first round) and two defeats (6-3 and 1-4 in 2018).

But the white team tied the record with the first round victory. On 30 September, Real won 0-3 away with goals from Joselu Mato, Aurélien Tchouameni and J.Ude Bellinghamin a match in which Girona had two clear opportunities to take the lead in the first minutes (Viktor Tsygankov and Yangel Herrera) and in which they claimed a clear penalty for handball by Bellingham with 0-0.

It remained the only defeat in the league for Míchel’s team, who have since gone 15 games without defeat.

The red and whites boast 17 wins, five draws and one defeat, and this afternoon they will take the field at the Bernabéu with the desire to take the lead.

The club’s big goal is to qualify for the next edition of the Champions League, but the fans want to continue dreaming of LaLiga. The precedents against Real Madrid support his fantasies.